Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

10.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

11.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

12.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

13.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

16.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

17.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

18.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

19.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

20.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

21.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

22.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

24.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

26.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

27.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

28.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

29.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

30.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

31.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

32.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

33.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

34.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

35.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

36.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

39.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

40.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

41.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

42.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

43.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

44.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

45.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

46.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

47.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

48.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

49.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

50.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler